Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Drawknife in use shaping
An interesting wheel!
Shaped handles just made.
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Drawknife in use again.
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Checking the tyre circumference
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Second tyre being hammered into place
Trimming with a drawknife
Cooling down
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Marking out a felloe
The hot tyre in place
Cleaning up the tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
A 12 spoked wheel
Welding a tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Second tyre nearly in place
Using a rasp
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling the tyre down
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Cooling the hot tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Welding a hub band
Boring a hub with a taper auger
An example of wheel making in the past
Adzes awaiting handles
Fitting the felloes together
Clamping the wheel down
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Trimming the felloes
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Tyre nearly in place
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Field gun wheels
A few finishing taps
The first stage in shaping
Using a press on the tyre
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Close up of the clamping
Boring a hub the traditional way
Tail vice and dog
Clamped in place for tyring
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up the felloes
Applying a hot tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Detail of the wheel
A taper auger
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping with a drawknife
An example of the wheelwrights art
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Welding the tyre joint
The second tyre being hammered in place
Drawknife in use
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
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